Tomizawa, Soma City, Nakanosawa: Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Asteracanthus somaensis (Yabe 1902)
Yabe 1902
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan County:Fukushima-ken
Coordinates: 37.8° North, 140.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.1° North, 144.3° East
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nakanosawa
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black lithified "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:133508
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-09-14 09:44:11 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2012-09-14 09:44:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

42990. M. Goto. 1994. Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic fish faunas of the Japanese Islands. The Island Arc 3(1994):247-254 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]